I recently came across this Salon article from 2012 that is adapted from a book called Brain Wars. This article summarizes the research, however limited, on Out of Body Experiences (OBEs) and Near Death Experiences (NDEs).

As some of you may know, one of the accomplishments of the de Blasio administration so far was the idNYC, a municipal ID card that has NO requirements for immigration status. Now, any New Yorker can have an ID card for FREE.

This past winter was hell: single digit temps and an endless supply of snow and ice -aka, hazardous biking conditions. Needless to say, I spent a lot of time NOT biking this winter. My bike almost slid out from under me when I was biking in the protected bike lane on 1st Ave when I hit a hidden patch of ice from…

If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers. -Steve Allen, television host, musician, actor, comedian, and writer (1921-2000)